Dodge City Daily Globe, KS – Mar 21, 2014
At San Juan Capistrano, each year, spring is marked by the return of the Swallows. There is a huge festival, and these small birds make the national news every year when they return to their historic nesting sites.
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Author: Swallow Bird Nest
Breeding Biology of the White-rumped Swiftlet at Chillagoe
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MK Tarburton
Abstract
The White-rumped Swiftlet Aerodramus spodiopygius chillagoensis was studied during a good and a poor season at Chillagoe, Queensland.
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Climate change confuses migrating birds
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom – Mar 15, 2014
The swallows’ return to British shores each year symbolises the passing of winter and the approach of summer But in a sign of the blurring of the seasons brought on by climate change, one of the birds has this year shunned migration to Africa and instead spent all winter in Britain.
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Sarang Burung Wallet
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by Syn
Siapa sih yang belum pernah mendengar sarang burung walet? Seperti yang sudah kita ketahui, sarang burung walet yang asli harganya mahal banget. Dan yang sampe sekarang kita ketahui juga kalo harga sarang burung walet itu mahal karena (katanya sih..) burung walet itu suka membuat sarang di gunung – gunung yang tinggi (bahkan di puncak dan ujung tebing..wuih..). Dan untuk mengambil sarang burung walet harus menggunakan pendaki – pendaki yang sudah sangat berpengalaman.
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Settlement of millions of migratory birds threatened
MyNews.in, India – Feb 5, 2014
Wildlife Conservation Society scientists say the site is only one of two known roosts in Cross River State, a coastal region in southeastern Nigeria. The site is approximately two kilometres outside of Cross River National Park. Preliminary surveys by WCS indicate that the site may attract millions of swallows and be of international significance.
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
Nantucket Independent, USA – 19 hours ago
AN LGJ?
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
Birders are continually flummoxed by “LBJ’s” – Little Brown Jobs. These include a lot of the sparrows and the ubiquitous Yellowrumped Warbler, whose winter plumage is so nondescrip
But this week’s bird doesn’t hide in the grass or bushes around our island. No, it inhabits our winter beaches. Finding one is a real prize during Nantucket’s cold seasons.
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Spring migration is in full swing
The Tribune, TX – 5 hours ago
Bonnie McKeena
If you are a fan of the beautiful purple martin, now is the time to get your bird house ready.
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Phylogeny of swallows (Aves: Hirundinidae) estimated from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences
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Frederick H. Sheldona, , , Linda A. Whittinghamb, Robert G. Moylec, Beth Slikasd and David W. Winklere
aMuseum of Natural Science, 119 Foster Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
bDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
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Family VI. HIRUNDINAE. SWALLOWS.
Family
www.audubon.org/bird
THE REPUBLICAN OR CLIFF SWALLOW.
[Cliff Swallow.]
Genus
HIRUNDO FULVA, Vieill.
[Hirundo pyrrhonota.]
In the spring of 1815, I for the first time saw a few individuals of this species at Henderson, on the banks of the Ohio, a hundred and twenty miles below the Falls of that river.
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The Edible Riches of Sabah's Gomantong Caves
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For centuries valuable birds’ nests glued to inner cave walls were harvested by Kinabatangan hunters, REZA AZMI witnesses these steely collectors dangling from a narrow network of rattan ladders.
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